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Maggie O'Farrell Land

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An epic portrait of a family navigating the legacy of Ireland's Great Hunger, Land is Maggie O'Farrell at her spellbinding, inimitable best.

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Binding: Paperback

Date Published: 02 Jun 2026

'You will never understand how the land remembers, how deep the roots grow'

A spellbinding story of separation, longing, recovery and survival as a family makes a new home in the aftermath of tragedy.

'A heart-bursting story of resilience and love' Louise Kennedy
'Haunting and elemental' Ferdia Lennon
'Darkly magical. A brilliant and powerful novel' Alice Winn
'This beautiful book swallowed me whole' Charlotte McConaghy
'A work of towering imagination and empathy' Roisin O'Donnell
'As visceral as a novel can get'
Yael van der Wouden

On a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tomas and his reluctant son, Liam, are working for the great Ordnance Survey project to map the whole of Ireland. The year is 1865, and in a country not long since ravaged and emptied by the Great Hunger, the task is not an easy one. Tomas, however, is determined that his maps will be a record of the disaster.

The British soldiers in charge are due to arrive any day, expecting the work to be completed, but Tomas is sent off course by an unsettling encounter in a copse. His life, and those of his family, will never be the same again. Liam is terrified by the sudden change in his taciturn father. What was it that caused such cracks to open in Tomas and how is Liam, aged only ten, going to finish the mapping, and get them both home?

Land is a story of buried treasure, overlapping lives, ancient woodland, persistent ghosts, a particularly loyal dog, and how, when it comes to both land and history, nothing ever goes away.
About the Author

Maggie O'Farrell is the author of HAMNET, Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020, and the memoir I AM, I AM, I AM, both Sunday Times no. 1 bestsellers. Her novels include AFTER YOU'D GONE, MY LOVER'S LOVER, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US, which won a Somerset Maugham Award, THE VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX, THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE, which won the 2010 Costa Novel Award, INSTRUCTIONS FOR A HEATWAVE, THIS MUST BE THE PLACE and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT, which was shortlisted for the Women's Prize. She is also the author of three books for children, WHERE SNOW ANGELS GO, THE BOY WHO LOST HIS SPARK and WHEN THE STAMMER CAME TO STAY. She lives in Edinburgh.

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A deep-mapping of a place and its people, a heart-bursting story of resilience and love. Land is simply the best novel I've read in years -- Louise Kennedy
A breathtaking hymn to the sanctity of natural spaces, operating on timescales both intimate and geological. I finished Land moved not only by the vivid lives of its human characters, but the thrumming, gorgeous presence of its mosses, waters, winds and skies -- Daniel Mason
Haunting and elemental in its evocation, Land is a novel of startling imagination and power. Upon finishing it, I did not feel so much that I had read a book as lived inside it -- Ferdia Lennon
Wondrous and magisterial -- Kamila Shamsie
A stunning achievement. Maggie O'Farrell's most ambitious novel yet, and maybe her most moving. I adored it. -- Bobby Palmer
Expansive and intimate, this beautiful book swallowed me whole. I loved it, and will miss its characters terribly -- Charlotte McConaghy
A work of towering imagination and empathy; a beautifully layered novel, told in lyrical, haunting prose which transforms familiar history into something new and startlingly relevant. To read this novel is to embark on an emotional journey, to lose yourself in the pages of a story that is at once devastating and irrepressibly life affirming. I loved it -- Roisin O'Donnell
As visceral as a novel can get -- Yael van der Wouden
Land is a vast, darkly magical novel from a masterful writer. Maggie O'Farrell's historical fiction illuminates not only the past, but our own moment in time. A brilliant and powerful novel -- Alice Winn
This deep, dense, heartrending novel is the best of Maggie O'Farrell, who is the best of writers, modern and alive, with the detailed brilliance of great nineteenth-century storytellers. All I need as a reader is in Land -- Amy Bloom
A stunning and gorgeous epic. . . . O'Farrell paints a devasting yet tender portrait of Irish history * Publishers Weekly, starred review *
Land is a hidden grove of a book. Since leaving its pages, the stories hiding in place-names and redacted maps have seemed palpable in my everyday life. I loved the characters, the slowing effect of O'Farrell's prose and her careful splicing of story into history -- Amy Jeffs

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